From the recording Jack Pine and The Fire
Track #8 - Multi-Generational conflicts make for multi-generational misery. Will the end really justify the means?
Lyrics
Everybody's fighting to be closer to God,
Steppin' in the same steps that their forefathers trod.
Maybe God can bring you peace, but who brings peace to him,
But when the whole world is killin' no one's ever gonna win.
Child sleeps, bullets runnin' past his head,
Waitin' for the day that one will strike his head.
He's thinkin "I'm gonna fight for what my father fought for,
And what his father fought for,
And what his father fought for.
And I'm gonna die for what my daddy died for,
And what his daddy died for,
And what his daddy died for,
And I'm gonna be right!"
Ain't no wrong to come from prayin' for a light to see,
But shed no blood except to scrape as you get down on your knees.
Well I've been sinnin' all my life and that's alright with me,
But I ain't ever had a life where I had to kill to believe.
Child sleeps, bullets runnin' past his bed,
Waitin for the day that one will strike his head
Everybody's fighting to be closer to God,
Steppin' in the same steps that their forefathers trod.
Maybe God can bring you peace, but who brings peace to him,
But when the whole world is killin' no one's ever gonna win.
Child sleeps, bullets runnin' past his head,
Waitin' for the day that one will strike his head.
He's thinkin "I'm gonna fight for what my father fought for,
And what his father fought for,
And what his father fought for.
And I'm gonna die for what my daddy died for,
And what his daddy died for,
And what his daddy died for,
And I'm gonna be right!"
I'm Gonna Be Right!